I AM Yoga: Exploring the Secrets of Life
Are you truly living in the present, or are you unconsciously re-living your past? Most of us move through life reacting to today based on fears and pleasures from yesterday. This habit creates a cycle of repetition that keeps true connection out of reach. Below,...
Connecting to the Power of Prana through the Posture of Consciousness and Meditation in Motion
You can hold a yoga shape with skill and still feel divided inside. Muscles work, and breath moves, yet a quiet conflict continues between what the mind demands and what the body needs. Gurudev Shri Amritji offers the Posture of Consciousness as a way to end this...
Breath Awareness: A Steadier Way to Move Through the Holiday Season
As the pace of the season increases, the breath often becomes the first place where change is felt. Breath mirrors the state of the nervous system, and even slight tightening or irregularity signals a shift in internal momentum. Breath awareness is one of the simplest...
Connecting to the Power of Prana through the Posture of Consciousness and Meditation in Motion
Posture of Consciousness The first part of the Posture of Consciousness is performed with integrative intention and deliberate action. Usually, when postures are practiced only as a physical discipline, you are facing fears that hold you back, not the body. In this...
The Esoteric Depths of Yoga Nidra
Everything you can see, feel, and experience is made up of energy. All matter, all experiences, all sensations, all life-giving and autonomic functions are carried out through energy’s innate intelligence in accordance with universal law. This means that the same...
Creating an Internal, Safe Space for Healing with Yoga Nidra
Trauma is injury to the nervous system. The impact of the event flooded our systems with too much, too fast, too soon. Without the right tools, time and space to make sense of the event and assimilate, the unresolved memory replays itself over and over again inside...
Replenish and Re-energize with Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra is a practice that can help replenish and re-energize our systems in real time, helping to offset the inherent risks associated with chronic, long-term stress accumulation. Not all stress is bad and can be as simple as a demand on the system that propels us...
Stress & Stress-Related Symptoms
Unchecked chronic stress eventually creates the appropriate conditions for stress-related imbalances to show up in various forms, often in clusters such as anxiety and insomnia, chronic pain and immune disorders, digestive problems and brain fog. We know these...
Read moreWhere physical flexibility ends, physical, mental, and emotional balance and peace of mind begins. Western yoga will survive the ebb from the first wave of popularity if it matures and evolves by returning to its roots in the East.
Make Your New Year’s Resolution – Minus the Guilt
How many of us have told ourselves year after year, “Starting Jan 2nd I’m going to lose that extra 10 lbs.,” or “I’ll stop eating sugar.” Maybe we even succeed – for a month or two. Then perhaps we have to work overtime and miss a few days at the gym. We go to a party...
Balance Your Energy With Hatha Yoga
Anatomy of Energy The energy system of the body consists of the chakras and in the center of the chakras there is a central channel called the Shushumna. There are 2 sides of this energy system called Pingala and Ida and when they are in balance the energy moves to...
3 Yoga Poses for Anxiety Relief
Yoga is not just good for your body. Every time you practice yoga, you are building your immunity to anxiety and stress. Here are the 3 best yoga poses for anxiety relief.
Yoga Therapy: A “Sensation-al” Experience
Yoga Therapy: Working with the Psychology of the Body Often, when we think of Yoga, we envision people contorting their bodies into crazy pretzel-like positions or hot, sweaty stamina building classes. While this kind of Yoga has become popular in Western society,...